Blessed are the toilers, some say, especially those who are able to put their own feet to their faith and bring their dreams to life.

BY Bevolyn Williams-Harold

Departments

Africa Focus

At 92, Dudley Thompson, Esq., is perhaps the oldest Pan-African
activist still active. Born in Jamaica, where he held several
ministerial positions and holds the Order of Jamaica, the nation’s
highest honor, Thompson was a friend and colleague of renowned
20th-century Pan-Africanists.

BY Rosalind McLymont

Career

All of your teenager’s friends are going to college. Harvard, Howard, a
couple to the state U., small private colleges. They’re going to become
doctors and teachers, programmers and biologists. But your child has
decided that college isn’t the right choice. She always loved welding.
He wants to work construction.

BY Terri Schlichenmeyer

Capital Markets

Investing in developing markets is not for the fainthearted. So it
should come as no surprise that Afro-Caribbean equities took a step
back from mid-June to mid-July after modest gains in the second
quarter.

To succeed as an entrepreneur after a successful career in corporate
America, you have to grow a new skin — more precisely, a new way of
looking at the world.

BY Cliff Ennico

Jeff Henderson’s love affair with food and cooking began in a most
unlikely setting: a federal prison. At 24, Henderson was sentenced to
10 years for selling crack cocaine. Soon, he was trading his culinary
creations (chicken-and-cinnamon rolls, for example) with other inmates
for shirts and whatever else he needed.

BY Inés Bebea

Finance & Economy

If you own a credit card, you know that the issuer of that card can do
as it wants with your account. Millions of cardholders have witnessed
just how much control the issuer has, from arbitrarily increasing
interest rates to slashing credit limits.

The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance opens for the 2009-2010 school
year with a curriculum focused on finance, financial literacy and the
tools for succeeding in business.

BY Inés Bebea

Industry Focus

Until relatively recently, only the technologically savvy, curious and
ultrasophisticated human resources professional was comfortable with
online recruitment. Today, online recruiting is an indispensable tool
for locating talent for every job level, with some recruiters and
hiring companies relying solely on online portals.

On Aug. 20, President Obama proclaimed Aug. 23–29 “Minority Enterprise Develop-ment Week, paying tribute to the 4 million or so minority-owned firms in the country that “create jobs, develop new

BY Salome Kilkenny

Technology

Bigger is better when it comes to paychecks, contracts and football
players, but it doesn’t work that way when it comes to high-tech
business tools. As technology progresses, devices — and their price
tags — shrink even as they become more sophisticated.